Switzerland and beyond: a road trip awaits...

Surrounded by snow-capped Alps, on a stunning lake, Lugano is scenically quite breathtaking. Our hotel is literally right on the lake and we have a top floor room with panoramic water views. In terms of visual feasts, it doesn’t get much better! We can see Italy across the water, but we’re in Switzerland. The people all speak Italian, yet we’re definitely not in Italy. Everything is super-organised, super-efficient, super-neat .....almost to the point of being too perfect. Yet ironically, compared with the rest of the country, we’re told that the Swiss consider Lugano to be pretty laid back and relaxed! Obviously, these things are relative not absolute! After four wonderful days here (Mike had a conference), we head off today (by train) to Munich (via Zurich). We’ll spend the night with Sean and Lidia (whom you ‘met’ in a previous blog), then on Thursday we pick up our campervan (motor home), and head for who knows where (possibly France and Spain). Don’t expect much blogging until we get to our hotel in Paris on about 5 May. Arrivederci!

PS check out our new home for the next 2 weeks: www.ideamerge.com/motorhomes/germany/mrent/group7_T6911_4_specs_2.html